The Dude (Quincy Jones album)
Occupation
- Toots Thielemans - guitar, harmonica
- Patti Austin - vocals, background vocals
- Steve Lukather - Guitar
- John Robinson - Drums
- Paulinho da Costa - percussion
- Herbie Hancock - Piano
- David Hawk Wolinski - Clavinet
- Greg Philinganes synthesizer
- James Ingram - Vocals
- David Foster - piano
- Stevie Wonder Synthesizer
- Michael Jackson - background vocals
- Michael Boddicker - Synthesizer
The Dude is a studio album by American musician and producer Quincy Jones, published in 1981. The Dude stood next to famous musicians like Herbie Hancock, Stevie Wonder, Ernie Watts, Michael Jackson and Ian Underwood a variety of talents under the direction of Jones before, received 12 Grammy nominations and won four of them.
Background
The album reached # 10 on the Billboard 200, the official U.S. album charts, and in each place 3 on the Billboard jazz and Billboard R & B charts.
Reception
The album, the title and musicians have received many awards; the album itself received a Grammy in the category of Best Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocal - Pop, the title Velas a Grammy for Best Instrumental Arrangement. The title of Ai No Corrida received the Grammy Award for Best Instrumental Arrangement with Sing Along and James Ingram for the vocals on One hundret Ways in the category of Best Male Vocal Performance - R & B.
Richard S. Ginell awarded at Allmusic three out of five stars and wrote:
" ... Quincy Jones quietly owed one more album to A & M - and he gave them a blockbuster, one did reached number ten, yielded three hit pop singles and made a star out of soul balladeer James Ingram. Ai No Corrida, and the leadoff track, is the Quincy Jones hit method par excellence - great pacing, superb sound, a catchy tune, a hot Ernie Watts tenor sax solo and you can dance to it, too. Obviously ...., though, the main purpose here is to make hit pop singles, and The Dude does a pretty good job of that. "
" ... Quincy Jones owed A & M yet another album - and he gave them a blockbuster, one that reached number ten, three pop singles contained in the hits and made a star from the Soul singer James Ingram. Ai No Corrida, the first piece is the Quincy Jones hit method par excellence - great pace, superb sound, a catchy tune, a hot Ernie Watts tenor sax solo, and you can dance to it too .... Obviously, however, the main purpose here is to make pop hit singles, and The Dude accomplished this task pretty well. "